Northrim Bank Authors
Marc Langland is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Northrim BanCorp, Inc., and is chairman and chief executive of its wholly owned subsidiary, Northrim Bank.
After starting in banking in Iowa and Colorado, Marc began his Alaska banking career in 1965 in Anchorage. In 1977, he became president and CEO of First National Bank of Fairbanks, a position he held through 1985. From 1985-1987, he served as chairman and CEO of Key Bank of Alaska. Marc co-founded Northrim Bank in 1990.
Marc has served in leadership roles in business, community and statewide organizations which work toward a strong economy and prudent fiscal planning at the state level. He is currently a board director for Alaska Air Group; Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc.; Commonwealth North; and the Fiscal Policy Council of Alaska.
Joe Beedle was named Northrim Bank’s president in August 2009. He joined the bank in May 2006 as executive vice president, chief lending officer. Joe is a member of Northrim’s executive management team and is responsible for all lending.
Joe was the University of Alaska’s chief financial officer from 2000 through 2006. He served as president and chief executive officer of Goldbelt, Inc., in Juneau for six years prior to taking the university position.
Joe has more than 22 years of banking experience, including 10 in an executive lending role. Prior to joining Goldbelt, Joe was executive vice president and chief credit officer for Key Bank of Alaska, and had earlier banking experience with First Bank in Ketchikan and at National Bank of Alaska.
Joe currently serves as the president of the board of Commonwealth North. He is on the board of the Alaska Council of Economic Education and on the Small Business Development Center’s Advisory Board.
Mark Edwards was born and raised in Alaska. He joined Northrim as a commercial loan officer in 2007. Previously he served the State of Alaska as its state economist in the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, as the director of the Office of Economic Development, where he worked on diverse issues ranging from economic development in rural Alaska to international exports, and in the Department of Revenue, focusing on developing the natural gas pipeline, petroleum tax issues and the state’s long term fiscal plan. Edwards received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in Economics and Government, and a Masters Degree with Distinguished Honors in International Business from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona.
Blythe Campbell is the Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications of Northrim Bank, responsible for the bank’s advertising, market research, employee communications, and relationships with the media, public, and community organizations. Blythe is a third-generation Alaskan with 30 years of experience in a variety of Alaska industries including banking, oil & gas, telecommunications and engineering, and a writer with credits in national, statewide and local publications. She serves on the boards of the Alaska Kidney Foundation and the Alaska Community Foundation.
Guest Authors
Guest author postings are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Northrim Bank.
Dan Dickinson trained as a geologist at Brown University and currently holds a certified public accountant’s license for Alaska. Dan has served in several state and municipal administrations, including time as the director of tax for the State of Alaska. His consulting practice concentrates on state and local taxes (SALT) with a focus on oil and gas. The spectrum of his work ranges from compliance and mechanics to long range fiscal policy issues. Dan is a member of AICPA, IMA and ASCPA. Visit Dan’s website at www.dedcpa.com
Scott Goldsmith has been a public policy researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska Anchorage since 1975, and became Institute Director in 2001. Scott's primary research interests are in regional economic analysis, Alaska fiscal analysis, and energy and natural resourcers. Scott received his Bachelors of Arts degree from Princeton University in Economics, and his Masters and PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Scott is currently a member of the Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Committee and the Minerals Management Service Advisory Board. He is an advisor to the Alaska Fiscal Policy Council. Visit ISER's website at www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu.
Larry Persily is the federal coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, where he manages a staff in Washington, D.C., and Anchorage, working to ensure that federal agencies are ready to handle permit applications for construction and operation of a North Slope natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48 states. Before starting the job last March as a presidential appointee, Persily worked as an oil and gas aide in the Alaska Legislature and, previously, as an aide in the governor's office in Washington on oil and gas issues. He also has served as deputy commissioner at the Alaska Department of Revenue and was a journalist in Alaska for more than 20 years.
